wolfysluv
Sprinting down the street
Previosly I left the forum with the humorous story about me bragging to some guests about the intelligence of the cockatoo. Only to be embarrassed by Tika stopping mid stride to stare at her foot in total shock that she had one. Repeatedly. Some of you helped me by suppyling me with smart ••• explanations to get me out of this fix for when it happens again. I liked the one that said, "She is contemplating the string theory by examining the up and down quarks on her foot. Very observant creatures".
So last night, Tika was on Scotts chest. He and I turned and watched her do something she does all day ... take tiny feather or peice of debris that falls off of her and obsessively stuff it back into her feathers or run it all over herself in a really manic way. This time she had a tiny feather and was continually using it to run over her foot and to nibble her foot with the feather in her mouth. Scott gave me that goofy butt look to embarrass me about my bird because we have a running joke. He views the foot thing, the showering herself with food over her head with her foot (Yet another behavior I must think of an explanation for), and this taking a feather and "putting it back" as yet another goofy goffin moronic behavior that makes no sense ... hence making the intelligent parrot theory (in regards to her anyway) null and void. And also proving she is not a parrot after all but a blue footed booby or a fancy crested white chicken.
Embarrased and irrate at his faces, I said, "seriously ... the only creatures that use tools are those with unrivaled intelligence. And those are humans, apes, parrots and a couple others that I forget."
Scott: "Yah ... reaaaaaaaaal intelligent, trying to put a feather back into herself a thousand times a day not understanding its not going to stay"
Me: "Thats not it!!! See, the feather is a tool ....."
Scott " ... she's trying to put it back."
Me: "No she's not, thats just what we thought because we were too stupid to understand what she was doing and ..."
Scott ::nodding his head, making a face, and snickering:: "...ooookay."
Me: ".. using the feathers as tools for grooming. .. or something. I mean see, she keeps rubbing her feet with it! She's not putting it back"
Scott " yeaaaaaaah uh, no chance she just plain likes the way it feels.."
Me: "look ••••it ..."
Now Tika picks up a bigger feather and gets upset and repeatedly tries to put it back on her wing. We both stare ...
Scott: "Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahahahahah! Thats not grooming shes trying to stick it back in there!!"
Me: "NUT UUUUUUUUUUUUUH! SHE"S COMBINg HER FEATHERS SEE???"
Scott: "real intelligent ... frickin chicken"
Me: "grunt"
I need to start a thread or add to this one pics and vids of her "genus" behaviors.
Okay so down below we have a pic of her doing her infamous foot stare. And now here is a video of her doing it. The very first seconds of the vid you see her staring at her foot right in the darn middle of wrestling with me and a toy. Then when I'm all redircting the behavior and getting her attention back to the toy, she then HIDES between my legs to stare at it more!!
Tikas suprise foot video by wolfysluv - Photobucket
Here she is right in the middle of a BATH doing it:
tikafootbath_mpeg2video.flv video by wolfysluv - Photobucket
So can someone tell me how to embed PhotoBucket vids on here. I know how to do the pics. And I know how to embed YT movies.
And here is a cruddy movie showing her doing her feather thing. Now this is what I mean in that it almost looks like she's using it to groom. But she does also pick up a bigger feather and not run it over herself and instead just continually try to stick back in lol. I need to get a REAL video of that, cause its so funny. I have a "real" video of her foot staring somewhere. I need to dig it up and start a little Tika the Einstein series on YouTube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6mhZMwC1iA
So last night, Tika was on Scotts chest. He and I turned and watched her do something she does all day ... take tiny feather or peice of debris that falls off of her and obsessively stuff it back into her feathers or run it all over herself in a really manic way. This time she had a tiny feather and was continually using it to run over her foot and to nibble her foot with the feather in her mouth. Scott gave me that goofy butt look to embarrass me about my bird because we have a running joke. He views the foot thing, the showering herself with food over her head with her foot (Yet another behavior I must think of an explanation for), and this taking a feather and "putting it back" as yet another goofy goffin moronic behavior that makes no sense ... hence making the intelligent parrot theory (in regards to her anyway) null and void. And also proving she is not a parrot after all but a blue footed booby or a fancy crested white chicken.
Embarrased and irrate at his faces, I said, "seriously ... the only creatures that use tools are those with unrivaled intelligence. And those are humans, apes, parrots and a couple others that I forget."
Scott: "Yah ... reaaaaaaaaal intelligent, trying to put a feather back into herself a thousand times a day not understanding its not going to stay"
Me: "Thats not it!!! See, the feather is a tool ....."
Scott " ... she's trying to put it back."
Me: "No she's not, thats just what we thought because we were too stupid to understand what she was doing and ..."
Scott ::nodding his head, making a face, and snickering:: "...ooookay."
Me: ".. using the feathers as tools for grooming. .. or something. I mean see, she keeps rubbing her feet with it! She's not putting it back"
Scott " yeaaaaaaah uh, no chance she just plain likes the way it feels.."
Me: "look ••••it ..."
Now Tika picks up a bigger feather and gets upset and repeatedly tries to put it back on her wing. We both stare ...
Scott: "Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahahahahah! Thats not grooming shes trying to stick it back in there!!"
Me: "NUT UUUUUUUUUUUUUH! SHE"S COMBINg HER FEATHERS SEE???"
Scott: "real intelligent ... frickin chicken"
Me: "grunt"
I need to start a thread or add to this one pics and vids of her "genus" behaviors.
Okay so down below we have a pic of her doing her infamous foot stare. And now here is a video of her doing it. The very first seconds of the vid you see her staring at her foot right in the darn middle of wrestling with me and a toy. Then when I'm all redircting the behavior and getting her attention back to the toy, she then HIDES between my legs to stare at it more!!
Tikas suprise foot video by wolfysluv - Photobucket
Here she is right in the middle of a BATH doing it:
tikafootbath_mpeg2video.flv video by wolfysluv - Photobucket
So can someone tell me how to embed PhotoBucket vids on here. I know how to do the pics. And I know how to embed YT movies.
And here is a cruddy movie showing her doing her feather thing. Now this is what I mean in that it almost looks like she's using it to groom. But she does also pick up a bigger feather and not run it over herself and instead just continually try to stick back in lol. I need to get a REAL video of that, cause its so funny. I have a "real" video of her foot staring somewhere. I need to dig it up and start a little Tika the Einstein series on YouTube.
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